IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/mcm/qseprr/349.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Location of Adult Children as an Attraction for Black and White Elderly Migrants in the United States

Author

Listed:
  • Kao-Lee Liaw
  • William H. Frey
  • Ji-Ping Lin

Abstract

This research evaluates the location of adult children as a determinant of interstate primary migration for elderly (aged 60+) blacks and whites, over the 1985-90 period. We find that the location of adult children, as well as environmental amenities, affect the migration of both elderly blacks and whites but exert different redistribution influences on each race. Our results support the migration implications of Eugene Litwak's theory of the "modified extended family", which is considered to be more viable than the isolated nuclear family in a modern society.

Suggested Citation

  • Kao-Lee Liaw & William H. Frey & Ji-Ping Lin, 2000. "Location of Adult Children as an Attraction for Black and White Elderly Migrants in the United States," Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population Research Reports 349, McMaster University.
    • Handle: RePEc:mcm:qseprr:349
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/qsep/p/qsep349.PDF
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Ann Miller, 1977. "Interstate migrants in the United States: Some social-economic differences by type of move," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 14(1), pages 1-17, February.
    2. Liaw, Kao-Lee & Ledent, Jacques, 1987. "Nested logit model and maximum quasi-likelihood method : A flexible methodology for analyzing interregional migration patterns," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 17(1), pages 67-88, February.
    3. Merril Silverstein, 1995. "Stability and change in temporal distance between the elderly and their children," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 32(1), pages 29-45, February.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Kao-Lee Liaw & William H Frey & Ji-Ping Lin, 2002. "Location of Adult Children as an Attraction for Black and White Elderly Primary Migrants in the United States," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 34(2), pages 191-216, February.
    2. Kao-Lee Liaw & William H. Frey & Ji-Ping Lin, 2000. "Location of Adult Children as an Attraction for Black and White Elderly Migrants in the United States," Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population Research Papers 17, McMaster University.
    3. Karsten Hank, 2005. "Spatial Proximity and Contacts between Elderly Parents and Their Adult Children: A European Comparison," MEA discussion paper series 05098, Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
    4. admin, clsrn, 2011. "The Mom Effect: Family Proximity and the Labour Force Status of Women in Canada," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2011-30, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 28 Nov 2011.
    5. John Stillwell, 2005. "Inter-regional migration modelling - a review and assessment," ERSA conference papers ersa05p770, European Regional Science Association.
    6. Gitlesen, Jens Petter & Kleppe, Gisle & Thorsen, Inge & Ubøe, Jan, 2006. "An empirically based implementation and evaluation of a network model for commuting flows," Discussion Papers 2006/4, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science.
    7. Matthijs Kalmijn & Jannes Vries, 2009. "Change and Stability in Parent–Child Contact in Five Western Countries," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 25(3), pages 257-276, August.
    8. Helena Holmlund & Helmut Rainer & Thomas Siedler, 2013. "Meet the Parents? Family Size and the Geographic Proximity Between Adult Children and Older Mothers in Sweden," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 50(3), pages 903-931, June.
    9. Francesca Michielin & Clara Mulder, 2007. "Geographical distances between adult children and their parents in the Netherlands," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 17(22), pages 655-678.
    10. Janice Compton & Robert A. Pollak, 2015. "Proximity and Coresidence of Adult Children and their Parents in the United States : Description and Correlates," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 117-118, pages 91-114.
    11. Wilson, Franklin D. & Tienda, Marta, 1988. "Ethnicity, Employment and Migration," Institute for Social Science Research, Working Paper Series qt14m3n2pm, Institute for Social Science Research, UCLA.
    12. J-P Lin & K-L Liaw & C-L Tsay, 1999. "Determinants of Fast Repeat Migrations of the Labor Force: Evidence from the Linked National Survey Data of Taiwan," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 31(5), pages 925-945, May.
    13. Polsky, Daniel & Kletke, Phillip R. & Wozniak, Gregory D. & Escarce, Jose J., 2000. "HMO penetration and the geographic mobility of practicing physicians," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(5), pages 793-809, September.
    14. Steven Stern, 2014. "O Brother, Where Art Thou? We Need Your Help," Department of Economics Working Papers 14-08, Stony Brook University, Department of Economics.
    15. Kim, Insin & Kim, Joonhyeong Joseph, 2017. "Older adults’ parasocial interaction formation process in the context of travel websites: The moderating role of parent-child geographic proximity," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 399-416.
    16. Meliyanni Johar & Shiko Maruyama, 2011. "Intergenerational cohabitation in modern Indonesia: filial support and dependence," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 20(S1), pages 87-104, September.
    17. Findik Ozlem Alper & Ali Eren Alper & Okyay Ucan, 2016. "The Economic Impacts of Aging Societies," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 6(3), pages 1225-1238.
    18. Rebhun, Uzi, 2002. "Directions, Magnitude, and Efficiency of Interregional Migration, 1970-1990: Jews and Whites in the United States Compared," The Review of Regional Studies, Southern Regional Science Association, vol. 32(1), pages 37-68, Winter/Sp.
    19. H Y-F Cheung & K-L Liaw, 1987. "Metropolitan Out-Migration of Elderly Females in Canada: Characterization and Explanation," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 19(12), pages 1659-1671, December.
    20. Aleksandr Grigoryan & Knar Khachatryan, 2018. "Remittances and Emigration Intentions: Evidence from Armenia," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp626, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    elderly migrants;

    JEL classification:

    • J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mcm:qseprr:349. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/demcmca.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.